Where are the Extraterrestrial Civilizations?
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Wow
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NASA announces discovery of life on Mars with high degree of confidence
https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-announces-discovery-of-life-on-mars-wi
th-high-degree-of-confidence/
but seems like the Chinese will win in returning the first samples to earth
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dyson spheres are a joke
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Breakthrough Starshot is likely dead
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quiet-demise-of-breakth
rough-starshot-a-billionaires-interstellar/
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Galaxies with High Radio Emissions Could be Home to Many Advanced Civilizations
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/galaxies-with-high-radio-emissi
ons-could-be-home-to-many-advanced-civilizations
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Galaxies with High Radio Emissions Could be Home to Many Advanced Civilizations
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/galaxies-with-high-radio-emissi
ons-could-be-home-to-many-advanced-civilizations]
In that case, should they eat meat I hope they don't find us.
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New research suggests red dwarf systems are unlikely to have advanced civilizations
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-research-suggests-red-dwarf
-systems-are-unlikely-to-have-advanced-civilizations
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Yes, I watched a video on that. Question, who is your avatar?
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Native Americans Had Their Own Tales to Tell About Space Aliens — and Here's a New One
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/native-americans-space-aliens
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Yes, I watched a video on that. Question, who is your avatar?
an experimental Nexus-7 replicant named Rachael created by Eldon Tyrell in the Ridley Scott Blade Runner movie
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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Native Americans Had Their Own Tales to Tell About Space Aliens — and Here's a New One
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/native-americans-space-aliensQuote:
Originally posted by THG:
Yes, I watched a video on that. Question, who is your avatar?
an experimental Nexus-7 replicant named Rachael created by Eldon Tyrell in the Ridley Scott Blade Runner movie
Ok, good to know.
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Could Alien Probes Already Be Here? With John Gertz
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Astronomers announce discovery of a "Super-Earth" exoplanet - GJ 251 c - in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star 22 light years away
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/newly-discovered-super-earth-o
ffers-prime-target-search-alien-life
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Without Jupiter, Earth may have spiraled into the sun long ago
https://www.space.com/astronomy/jupiter/without-jupiter-earth-may-have
-spiraled-into-the-sun-long-ago
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Why we might live in a “barely habitable” universe
You Eat Other Animals?
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Avi Loeb’s crazy theories?
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Avi Loeb is a Fraud Part 2: 3I/ATLAS Shrugged
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What do we do if SETI is successful?
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-seti-successful.html
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The Telescope That Will Study Our Nearest Exoplanet
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-telescope-that-will-study-o
ur-nearest-exoplanet
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Radio observations find nothing at Omega Centauri's heart
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-radio-omega-centauri-heart.html
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The Hubble Witnesses Catastrophic Collisions In The Fomalhaut System
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-hubble-witnesses-catastroph
ic-collisions-in-the-fomalhaut-system
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Space, Alien Life, NASA, Science, UFO / UAPs often discussed on the front page of fireflyfans
http://fireflyfans.net/mboard.aspx
no aliens seen so far
Five New Planets and the Battle for Their Atmospheres
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/five-new-planets-and-the-battle
-for-their-atmospheres
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Jupiter’s moon Europa likely lacks the underwater geologic activity that would presumably be a prerequisite for life
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1111534
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Test...
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Europa's ice shell may be feeding a hidden ocean that could support life
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260122073620.htm
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Looking For Advanced Aliens? Search For Exoplanets With Large Coal Deposits
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/looking-for-advanced-aliens-sea
rch-for-exoplanets-with-large-coal-deposits
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Trump privately discussed rumors that he has a speech prepared on UFOs, Lara Trump says
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/2024140075961815053#m
“I think my father-in-law actually said it. There is some speech he has that I guess at the right time he’s gonna break out, and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life.”
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A Star Suddenly Brightened, Then Faded Into Darkness. Astronomers Say It May Have Turned Into a Black Hole
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-star-suddenly-brightened-t
hen-faded-into-darkness-astronomers-say-it-may-have-turned-into-a-black-hole-180988197/
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Exomoons Could Reveal Themselves Through Lunar Eclipses
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/exomoons-could-reveal-themselve
s-through-lunar-eclipses
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Trump responds to Obama’s viral interview, saying he will ask Pentagon to release files on UFOs and extraterrestrials – as it happened
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/19/donald-trump-firs
t-board-of-peace-washington-us-politics-live
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NASA reacts to Donald Trump's UFO announcement
https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-donald-trump-ufo-alien-announcement-1156
0059
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Don’t Expect Big Surprises in the Government’s Alien Files
https://www.wired.com/story/dont-expect-big-surprises-in-the-governmen
ts-alien-files/
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Where are the Extraterrestrial Civilizations?
You are living in one.
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No sun, no problem? How life could thrive on moons of starless 'rogue' planets
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/no-sun-no-prob
lem-how-life-could-thrive-on-moons-of-starless-rogue-planets
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Astronomers discover long-period radio transient of unknown origin
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-astronomers-period-radio-transient-unkno
wn.html
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Apollo astronaut Schmitt talks about getting back to the moon and life in the universe
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-qa-apollo-astronaut-schmitt-moon.html
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William Shatner describes the incredible pain he felt when he finally went into orbit
https://www.upworthy.com/william-shatner-space-pain-ex1/
He had a profound experience of the “overview effect.”
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Scientists discover 27 potential new planets that orbit two stars in solar systems far, far away
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/04/scientists-discover-27
-potential-new-planets
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Binary Stars Form Lots Of Exoplanets, But Many Of Them Are Ejected As Rogue Planets
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/binary-stars-form-lots-of-exopl
anets-but-many-of-them-are-ejected-as-rogue-planets
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How to spot an alien
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135057/how-to-spot-an-ali
en/
We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system
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Japan astronomers launch group to look for aliens, radio observations eyed
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/75333
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My thoughts on the first round of UFO files
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Nobody cares.
Neil can't even tell you if the dude that's fucking him is a man or a woman.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick. 
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Are Alien Probes Hiding in Our Backyard? A New Study Says We’ve Barely Looked
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/are-alien-probes-hiding-in-our-
backyard-a-new-study-says-weve-barely-looked
so its a stealth ad for a Spielberg movie?
Neil deGrasse Tyson Demands Government ‘Bring Out the Alien’ After UAP Disclosures: ‘Hollywood Prepped Us’
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-demands-government-20040
1163.html
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Is Transhumanism the Great Filter?
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Fungal Spores From NASA Cleanrooms Survive Simulated Mars and Space Travel Conditions
https://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Fungal_Spores_From_NASA_Cleanrooms_S
urvive_Simulated_Mars_and_Space_Travel_Conditions_999.html
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Aliens Will NEVER Arrive
Stephen Hawking warned us about aliens. He said don't signal them, they might come and conquer us. But here's the thing nobody talks about — the physics says they can't even reach us. Not won't. Can't.
Leonard Susskind, the man who fought Hawking over black holes and won, breaks down the real reason aliens will never show up at our door. And it has nothing to do with whether they exist or not. It has everything to do with the universe itself — and the brutal rules it plays by.
The distances between stars are not just big. They are structurally, mathematically impossible to cross for anything made of matter. The speed of light is not a speed limit you can break with better technology. It is the law of the universe. No exceptions. No shortcuts.
And then there's dark energy — the force silently pulling galaxies apart faster than light itself can chase them. Every second that passes, more of the universe crosses a horizon we can never reach. They are out there, maybe. But the universe built a wall between us and them, and that wall is spacetime itself.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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It just might be that every time we leave the earth's atmosphere, we can be considered extraterrestrial
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Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/24/nasa-rover-detects-pot
ential-signatures-ancient-microbial-life-mars
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Beyond Fermi's Paradox XVIII: What if We Make Contact?
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/beyond-fermis-paradox-xviii-wha
t-if-we-make-contact
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Dark Forest Hypothesis
https://formulon.blog/2026/06/30/dark-forest-hypothesis-the-great-sci-
fi-theory/
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Habitable Worlds Targets in New Star Activity Catalog
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/habitable-worlds-targets-in-new
-star-activity-catalog
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Nearby exoplanet just got more Earth-like and promising for life
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/nearby-exoplanet-just-got-
more-115100255.html
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First atmosphere found around Earth-like planet LHS 1140b
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo
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The ELT's Spectrograph Could Sniff Out Biosignatures on Other Worlds
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-elts-spectrograph-could-sni
ff-out-biosignatures-on-other-worlds
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What Do Scientists Know About UFOs? Sabine Hossenfelder on the Fermi Paradox
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Scientist Constructs "Big Picture" of Mars Water from Rover Data
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/scientist-constructs-big-pictur
e-of-mars-water-from-rover-data
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope set to unlock the universe's biggest mysteries
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/nasas-roman-space-telescop
e-set-151107605.html
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found aliens or not...but then ran out of money?
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Here's a thought.
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The Universe Might Be Full of Dead Worlds
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Upgraded Sardinia Radio Telescope To Continue Probing Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/upgraded-sardinia-radio-telesco
pe-to-continue-probing-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts
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What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-can-we-actually-find-on-an
-exoplanet-part-2-a-machine-to-find-another-earth
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New Evidence for Unknown Objects Around Earth with Beatriz Villarroel
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NASA Starshade Would Enable Astronomers To Directly Image Rocky Exoworlds
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-starshade-would-enable-ast
ronomers-to-directly-image-rocky-exoworlds
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Transit Searches for Habitable-Zone Exoplanets with Artificial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21129
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I Don't Want Aliens to Find Us
NASA Sent Them a Map
Nadia Drake
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Looking for Earth 2.0 in Binary Systems
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/looking-for-earth-20-in-binary-
systems
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Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth – but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed?
https://theconversation.com/many-space-missions-are-searching-for-life
-beyond-earth-but-are-we-prepared-for-the-fallout-if-they-succeed-288171
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